Colgate Palmolive news and trends

Mondelēz Says Food Inflation Getting Worse, Not Better
Retail // January 31, 2023

As CPG brands debate whether inflation is easing or intensifying, Mondelēz expects more challenges ahead. Snack and candy giant Mondelēz International, parent company of a wide range of popular brands including Cadbury, Oreo, and Trident spoke to this outlook on a call with analysts Tuesday (Jan....

Colgate-Palmolive Sees Trade-Down Continuing as Competitors Say Otherwise
Earnings // January 27, 2023

As some CPG companies say private-label growth has stalled or reversed, Colgate sees its continuance. On a call with analysts Friday (Jan. 27) discussing the company’s fourth-quarter 2022 financial results, consumer-packaged goods (CPG) giant Colgate-Palmolive noted that while trade-down to private label has flatlined in...

CPG Giants Use Digital Commerce to Pump New Life Into Old Brands
Retail // October 31, 2022

Consumers are increasingly looking to get as many of their needs as possible met online, and brands that fail to adapt risk falling behind. Consumer-packaged goods (CPG) giant Colgate-Palmolive, for one, has been looking to boost its digital performance across brands. The company has especially seen...

As Market Stumbles, Walmart, CVS, Defensive Brands and Retailers Seize Opportunity
Retail // January 25, 2022

Since Amazon hit its recent closing high price a week before Black Friday, investors have had their biggest change of heart over high-flying shares in nearly three years, beating the stock down more than 20% and erasing over $400 billion from the online giant’s $1.5...

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CPG Marketing Embraces New Business Models for Digital Transformation

March 04, 2024
The tidal wave of artificial intelligence (AI) that has hit the payments, commerce and financial services industries has created the need for a new definition. Because AI is enabling and accelerating momentum from analog and manual processes to automated, digital processes, AI and digital transformation belong in the same sentence. And one of the industries […]

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Colgate-Palmolive Seeks Higher Margins, New Markets via Tooth Whitening Tool Sold Through Dentists

January 24, 2022
Health and beauty stalwart Colgate-Palmolive is growing into a new market — and following in the footsteps of its Hill’s Science Diet pet food line sold through veterinarians — with Colgate Illuminator, a teeth-whitening tool sold through dentists. Colgate-Palmolive and digital dentistry 3D scanner software and service platform 3Shape announced the partnership Monday (Jan. 24), […]

hum by Colgate Collaborates With Meditation App Headspace

December 02, 2020
hum by Colgate and Headspace, the meditation and mindfulness app, have joined forces to help individuals “stress less and smile more” by making healthier everyday routines, according to a Wednesday...

Colgate-Palmolive Strikes Deal To Buy Filorga Cosmétiques

July 12, 2019
In a sign that Colgate-Palmolive is looking to diversify its interests beyond soap and toothpaste with deals, the consumer goods group has come to an agreement to purchase the Filorga...